Utah authors who were on the New York Times' best-seller list in 2013

Several authors from Utah or with ties to Utah wrote books that were on one of the New York Times’ best-seller lists in 2013.

Ann Romney's cookbook, “The Romney Family Table” (Shadow Mountain, $29.99) — published by Shadow Mountain, an imprint of Utah-based Deseret Book — spent three weeks in the top 20 of the "Advice, How-to and Miscellaneous" list following its October release.

The story of her 2002 kidnapping ordeal and rescue nine months later spent four more weeks on the “Hardback Nonfiction” list in November and six weeks on both the “E-book Nonfiction” and “Combined Print and E-book Nonfiction” lists.

Smart has served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and set up the Elizabeth Smart Foundation to help stop and prevent predatory crimes. She also married in 2012.

Stewart, a former Air Force pilot, was elected to represent Utah's 2nd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives last November and is the author of several books.

Amy Harmon

Utah County resident Amy Harmon’s novel “A Different Blue” (self-published, $15.99 paperback, $3.99 e-book) about a young British teacher taking a troubled high school senior under his wing was No. 6 on the “E-book Fiction” list the week of June 16 and then No. 21 the following week on the same list.

She is the author of five novels and in 2007 released the CD “What I Know.”

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Elizabeth Smart--what a fine young woman with a good head on her shoulders. I
saw her in a television interview and was so impressed. Her horrendous
experience could have ruined her life, but she is so strong and has stepped
beyond all that. Utah
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2:48 p.m. Jan. 7, 2014

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Say No to BO

Mapleton, UT

Speaking of LDS authors, Berniece Rabe passed away December 28th at the age of
85.A 1948 convert to the church, she never lived in Utah, but she was a
Newberry nominee.

9:29 a.m. Jan. 7, 2014

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CRappleye

Salt Lake City, UT

Ann Romney's book was published by Deseret Book, which is a publisher based
in Utah. The list includes authors that are from Utah or have some other strong
tie to the state.

Christine Rappleye is an editor and reporter for the Deseret News, where she works on the features sections, including the Food/Health section and book reviews, and Mormon Times. She previously worked for the Beaumont more ..